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Insider Ownership And Financial Analysts’ Information Environment: Evidence From Dual-Class Firms, Arno Forst, Barry Hettler, Ran Ron Barniv
Insider Ownership And Financial Analysts’ Information Environment: Evidence From Dual-Class Firms, Arno Forst, Barry Hettler, Ran Ron Barniv
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We examine the association of insider ownership with financial analysts’ forecast accuracy and dispersion in a sample of U.S. dual-class firms. Insider ownership exerts two effects: a positive incentive effect and a negative entrenchment effect. The lack of significant findings in prior research regarding the association between insider ownership and forecast accuracy may be attributable to the offsetting forces of these two effects. Using a comprehensive hand-collected sample of U.S. firms that maintain more than one class of common stock, we are able to disentangle incentive and entrenchment effects which are confounded in single-class firms. We find that disproportionate insider …